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National Jewish Book Awards
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By Year
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By Category
- Jewish Book of the Year
- American Jewish Studies
- Anthologies and Collections
- Autobiography and Memoir
- Biography
- Book Club Award
- Children's Literature
- Children's Picture Book
- Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice
- Debut Fiction
- Education and Jewish Identity
- Fiction
- Food Writing & Cookbooks
- Hebrew Fiction in Translation
- History
- Holocaust
- Holocaust Memoir Award
- Mentorship Award
- Middle Grade Literature
- Modern Jewish Thought and Experience
- Poetry
- Scholarship
- Sephardic Culture
- Visual Arts
- Women's Studies
- Writing Based on Archival Material
- Young Adult Literature
- American Jewish History
- Biography and Autobiography
- Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir
- Children's and Young Adult Literature
- Children's Picture Book
- Contemporary Jewish Life
- Contemporary Jewish Thought and Experience
- Cumulative Contribution to Children's Literature
- Cumulative Contribution to English Poetry
- Cumulative Contribution to Hebrew Poetry
- Cumulative Contribution to Jewish Historic Research and Thought
- Cumulative Contribution to Jewish History
- Cumulative Contribution to Yiddish Poetry
- Eastern European Studies
- Editing and Translationg Yiddish Poetry
- English Poetry
- Hebrew Poetry
- Illustrated Children's Book
- Israel
- JBC Modern Literary Achievement
- Jewish Education
- Jewish Family Literature
- Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
- Jewish History
- Jewish Thought
- Jewish-Christian Relations
- Lifetime Achievement
- Literary Achivement Award
- Nonfiction
- Reference
- Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture and Customs
- Sephardic Studies
- Special Recognition
- Translation of a Jewish Classic
- Translation of English Poetry
- Yiddish Language and Culture
- Yiddish Literature
- Yiddish Poetry
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| Category | Endowment | Winner | Finalists |
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| Autobiography and Memoir | Sandra Brand and Arik Weintraub Award | Steven Sadow, ed.King David's Harp
University of New Mexico Press
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| Children's Literature | Jewish Book Council Award | Sandy Asher, ed.With All My Heart, With All My Mind
Simon & Schuster
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| Children's Picture Book | Louis Posner Memorial Award | Simms TabackJoseph Had a Little Overcoat
Viking/ Penguin Putnam, Inc.
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| Eastern European Studies | Ronald S. Lauder Award | Israel Bartal and Antony Polonsky, eds.Polin
Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
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| Fiction | Jewish Book Council Award | Steve SternThe Wedding Jester
Graywolf Press
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| Holocaust | Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Foundation Award | Inga ClendinnenReading the Holocaust
Cambrige University Press
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| Israel | Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award | Bernard LewisThe Multiple Identities of the Middle East
Schocken
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| Jewish Education | Leon Jolson Award | Carol K. IngallTransmission and Transformation: A Jewish Perspective on Moral Education
Jewish Theological Seminary
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| Jewish History | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Emily D. Bilski, ed.Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture
University of California Press/ The Jewish Museum
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| Jewish Thought | Dorot Foundation Award | Norman LammThe Religious Thought of Hasidism
Ktav Publishing House
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| Jewish-Christian Relations | Charles H. Revson Foundation Award | Paul FredriksenJesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity
Alfred A. Knopf
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| Lifetime Achievement | Herman Wouk |
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| Nonfiction | Jewish Book Council Award | Zvi KolitzYosi Rakover Talks to God
Pantheon Books
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| Reference | Anonymous Donor | Eli YassifThe Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning
Indiana University Press
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| Scholarship | Anonymous Donor | Jeremy CohenLiving Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity
University of California Press
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| Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture and Customs | Mimi Frank Award In Memory of Becky Levy | David Gitilitz and Linda Kay DavidsonA Drizzle of Honey: The Lives and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews
St. Martin's Press
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| Sephardic Studies | Maurice Amado Foundation Award | Renne Levine MelammedHeretics or Daughters of Israel? The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile
Oxford University Press
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| Women's Studies | Barbara Dobkin Award | Renee Levine MelammedHeretics or Daughters of Israel? The Cyrpto-Jewish Women of Castile
Oxford University Press
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| Yiddish Language and Culture | The Forward Association Award | Marek Web and Alter KacyznePoyln: Jewish Life in the Old Country
Henry Holt/Metropolitan Books and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
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